SCI: TeraGrid Resource Partner

SCI：TeraGrid 资源合作伙伴

• 批准号: 0504064
• 负责人: John Towns
• 金额: $ 1491.92万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-08-01 至 2015-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0504064&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SCI; TeraGrid; Resource; Partner

The Extensible Terascale Facility (ETF) is the next stage in the evolution of NSF large-scale cyberinfrastructure for enabling high-end computational research. The ETF enables researchers to address the most challenging computational problems by utilizing the integrated resources, data collections, instruments and visualization capabilities of nine resource partners. On October 1, 2004, the ETF concluded a three-year construction effort to create this distributed environment called the TeraGrid (TG) and we are now entering the production operations phase.The TeraGrid resource partners inclue: the University of Chicago/Argonne National Laboratory, the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UCSD, the Texas Advanced Computing Center at UT-Austin, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at UIUC, Indiana University, Purdue University, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center.A separate proposal was submitted to NSF on October 19, 2004 for the TeraGrid Grid Infrastructure Group (GIG). Under the direction of Charlie Catlett at UC/ANL, in general, the GIG will be responsible for coordination of development activities for the TeraGrid with subcontracts to the partner sites. The resource partners (RP) will each have independent cooperative agreements with NSF, but will work closely with the GIG to implement the vision of the TeraGrid.This proposal outlines the plan at NCSA to participate as a resource partner in the TeraGrid team to provide the expanding user community with ongoing access to this computational science facility. This proposal covers the period November 1, 2004 through October 31, 2009.To fulfill NCSA's mission of enabling new scientific discoveries, NCSA brings its extensive experience and world-class leadership in supporting engineering and science research and education in a 24x7 production environment to the TeraGrid (TG). Our goals as a TG Resource Provider (RP) are to a) support applications development and tuning to enable users to develop highly effective grid applications, b) offer production-quality computational, data, and visualization services to support advanced science needs, c) respond rapidly to issues raised by users, administrators, or other TeraGrid sites, and d) support the services, software, policies, and milestones of the TG Grid Integration Group (GIG). The result of these efforts will be a stable, robust, secure, grid-enabled high-performance computing and storage environment that supports the development and execution of grid applications, science gateways, and capability applications. In fulfilling these goals, NCSA will leverage expertise and effort from other activities, including the NCSA/SDSC CyberInfrastrcture Partnership, to address the needs of the TG user communities to the greatest extent possible. The success of TG depends on the integration of the unique and collective strengths and capabilities of the individual sites and the GIG. NCSA's strengths are in the areas of application performance engineering, advanced grid applications support, software integration, packaging and support, distributed operations and procedures, large-scale parallel file systems and data-exchange and analysis tools, I/O and network performance analysis, security, and large-scale compute resources integrated with storage and visualization. Our hardware and software resources are backed by a knowledgeable and experienced staff well versed in working with high-end users. The integration of site-specific production services into the common TG user environment will make it possible for applications teams and user communities to increase their productivity by minimizing the effort required to access multiple or different resources while maximizing the quality and availability of those resources. This will enable current users to expand the scope and range of their scientific research, provide an easy-to-use, highly productive environment for new users and communities, and create a cyberinfrastructure that will be the basis for new scientific programs. NCSA's success within the TG will be measured by the degree to which its TG resources are effectively used to solve important scientific problems such as those being investigated by leading edge researchers.This proposal outlines NCSA's plan to participate as a resource provider on the TG team. We will provide to the expanding TG user community ongoing access to the growing NCSA-managed TG computational science facility. The TG RP grant will be used almost entirely to fund highly experienced NCSA personnel to support this facility and to serve the needs of TG users in coordination with NCSA's Core NSF support. Appendix A contains common text that links the nine TG RP proposals and the TG GIG proposal. Through this RP, we will empower research communities to do their science and Engineering research by seamless use of NCSA's TG and Core resources in the context of the larger TG effort. This includes support for distributed computation, data-centric science, on-demand computing, and connection to a broad range of emerging cyberinfrastructure-based capabilities funded from a variety of sources. Working together with scientists, engineers, and other RP sites, NCSA will help enable new research that would otherwise be much more difficult, or simply impossible, to carry out. NCSA will build, improve, and make available a set of high-end resources in support of the national research community. The results of this effort will lead to a hardware, software, and networking environment that can be extended to other facilities. It will also provide valuable information to others building grids that may include high-end facilities. Finally, NCSA's experienced staff will have a substantial positive impact on the quality of the TG environment and on the ability of users to work effectively in that environment.

可扩展的Terascale设施（ETF）是NSF大规模网络基础结构进化的下一个阶段，用于实现高端计算研究。 ETF使研究人员能够利用九个资源合作伙伴的集成资源，数据收集，工具和可视化功能来解决最具挑战性的计算问题。 On October 1, 2004, the ETF concluded a three-year construction effort to create this distributed environment called the TeraGrid (TG) and we are now entering the production operations phase.The TeraGrid resource partners inclue: the University of Chicago/Argonne National Laboratory, the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UCSD, the Texas Advanced Computing Center at UT-Austin, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at UIUC, Indiana University,普渡大学，橡树岭国家实验室和匹兹堡超级计算中心。通常，在UC/ANL的Charlie Catlett的指导下，演出将负责与合作伙伴站点分包合同的Teragrid开发活动协调。资源合作伙伴（RP）每个人都将与NSF达成独立的合作协议，但将与演出紧密合作以实施Teragrid的愿景。该提案概述了NCSA的计划，以作为Teragrid团队中的资源合作伙伴参与，以提供扩展的用户社区，以持续访问该计算科学机构。该提案涵盖了2004年11月1日至2009年10月31日的期限。为了实现NCSA实现新的科学发现的使命，NCSA将其丰富的经验和世界一流的领导力在24x7生产环境中支持工程和科学研究和教育，向TeraGRID（TG）带来了24x7生产环境。 我们作为TG资源提供商（RP）的目标是a）支持应用程序开发和调整，以使用户能够开发高效的网格应用程序，b）提供生产质量的计算，数据和可视化服务，以支持高级科学需求，c）对用户，管理员或其他Teragrid网站以及其他Teragrid网站以及d）的服务（c）迅速响应。 这些努力的结果将是一个稳定，健壮，安全，启用网格的高性能计算和存储环境，可支持网格应用程序，科学网关和能力应用程序的开发和执行。 在实现这些目标时，NCSA将利用其他活动（包括NCSA/SDSC Cyber​​infrastrcture合作伙伴关系）的专业知识和精力，以最大程度地解决TG用户社区的需求。 TG的成功取决于单个站点和演出的独特和集体优势和能力的整合。 NCSA的优势在于应用程序性能工程，高级网格应用程序支持，软件集成，包装和支持，分布式操作和过程，大规模并行文件系统以及数据交换和分析工具，I/O和网络性能分析，安全性，安全性，以及与存储和可视化集成的大型计算资源。我们的硬件和软件资源由知识渊博的经验丰富的员工提供支持，精通与高端用户合作。将特定于网站的生产服务集成到通用TG用户环境中将使应用程序团队和用户社区通过最大程度地减少访问多个或不同资源所需的精力，同时最大程度地提高这些资源的质量和可用性来提高其生产率。这将使当前用户能够扩大其科学研究的范围和范围，为新用户和社区提供易于使用，高效的环境，并创建一个网络基础设施，这将成为新科学计划的基础。 NCSA在TG中的成功将以有效地使用其TG资源来解决重要的科学问题的程度来衡量，例如，领先的研究人员正在调查的问题。该提案概述了NCSA作为TG团队作为资源提供者参与的计划。我们将为不断扩大的TG用户社区提供对不断增长的NCSA管理的TG计算科学设施的访问。 TG RP赠款将几乎完全用于资助经验丰富的NCSA人员，以支持此设施，并满足与NCSA的NCSA核心NSF支持的TG用户需求。附录A包含将9个TG RP提案和TG GIG建议链接的常见文本。通过此RP，我们将通过在更大的TG努力下通过无缝使用NCSA的TG和核心资源来赋予研究社区的科学和工程研究。这包括对分布式计算，以数据为中心的科学，按需计算的支持，以及与从各种来源资助的各种新兴网络基础结构的功能的联系。 NCSA与科学家，工程师和其他RP站点一起工作，将有助于实现新的研究，否则这将变得更加困难或根本不可能进行。 NCSA将建立，改进并提供一组高端资源，以支持国家研究界。 这项工作的结果将导致可以扩展到其他设施的硬件，软件和网络环境。它还将向其他建筑网格提供有价值的信息，这些信息可能包括高端设施。最后，NCSA经验丰富的员工将对TG环境的质量以及用户在该环境中有效工作的能力产生重大积极影响。